The Edge of Work

JP Elliott is a People and Talent Leader, and the Host of the Future of HR Podcast. With a career spanning 2 decades of talent and HR leadership roles, JP has both passion and expertise in understanding how talent plays a critical role in business strategy and value creation within an organization. During our conversation, JP spoke about his perspectives on the importance and opportunities in using talent in a strategic way in today’s world of work. JP also shared his perspective on key talent foundations and his own experiences around talent philosophies, investing in critical roles, and the importance of investing in high performers and high potential talent. JP also shared some of his own lessons and learnings from speaking with dozens of senior HR and people leaders on his own podcast, and his own advice on how HR leaders can lead in shaping the future of work.LinksJP’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpelliottphd/JP’s Podcast: https://www.futureofhr.com/ 

Dr. Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson are Leadership Coaches and Co-Hosts of The Inside Job Podcast. As coaches and podcast hosts,  Nayla and Eric spend their days helping people navigate the complexities of work, leadership and life, and provide their clients and listeners with tools, support and coaching to explore the intersection of creating healthy, self-directed, and sustainable work and careers. During our conversation, Eric and Nayla spoke about the changes they are seeing in work and the workplace, and how this has impacted employees in how they think about their relationships with work and their peers. We also spoke about the role that managers and leaders play in helping their employees develop and grow, and what Eric and Nayla think leaders can and should do, to create a better world of work for their people.Links:Dr. Nayla Bahri - Leadership & Career Coach: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naylabahri/ Eric Johnson - Leadership and Career Coach: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thisisericjohnson/The Inside Job Podcast: https://www.insidejobthepodcast.com/ 

In this episode, we spoke with Andrea MacKechnie, a leader in talent and leadership development. With a track record of leading talent and leadership teams, Andrea has a keen sense of how the workplace is changing, and the role that talent development plays in unlocking the potential and performance of people. During our conversation, Andrea spoke about her thoughts on how the workplace is changing with the shift to remote and hybrid work, and how investments in programs around what she calls cognitive apprenticeship as well as manager development can help organizations build cultures where people can thrive.Links:Andrea’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-mackechnie-a9157032/BCG & Employee Retention: https://www.bcg.com/press/18december2023-employees-move-on-from-current-jobsMcKinsey and Career Development: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/the-great-attrition-is-making-hiring-harder-are-you-searching-the-right-talent-pools

Hillary Miller is the Chief Learning Officer at Penn State Health. In her role as the Chief Learning Officer, Hillary is focused on driving employee retention and career development for the organization. During our conversation, Hillary spoke about some of the strategic approaches that she and her team have taken around focusing on employee retention to deliver a great experience both for employees as well as for patients of the hospital. Hillary also spoke about the organization’s strategy and philosophy around career development, and some of the tools and programs they have put in place to help employees at Penn State Health build their own careers inside of the organization.LinksHillary’s Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillarybmiller/

Herminia Ibarra is a Professor at London Business School, and the author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Herminia's book came out over 20+ years ago, and helped pioneer a new way of thinking about career reinvention, and since then, has gone on to help and inspire many professionals looking to transition into new careers by tapping into their multiple selves. It was recently updated, and the second edition was published in the fall of 2023.During our conversation, Herminia spoke about what’s changed in the workplace and how we think about career reinvention since she first published her book in 2003, as well as what still remains. She also shared her perspective on why career reinvention is so hard, why we expect more out of our work and our careers, and how using exploration and experimentation can help us iterate, reinvent and evolve amidst a changing world of work.Links:Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/herminia-ibarra-4455411a/ Herminia’s Book: https://herminiaibarra.com/working-identity-book/

Rodney Evans is a Partner at The Ready, a future of work consulting firm, as well as the Co-Host of the Podcast Brave New Work. After working as a leader in HR for over a decade, Rodney has been advising organizations to think and work in new ways to adapt to a complex and ever changing world of work.During our conversation, Rodney spoke about some of the challenges organizations are facing both today and how new ways of thinking and working around HR can help us create a better world of work. She also shared some of her thoughts around how leaders and organizations that want to create a better world of work, can get started today.Links:Website: https://www.theready.com/Podcast: https://www.theready.com/podcastRodey Evans: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneyeevans/

Cali Williams Yost is the Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group. With over three decades of experience advising companies on flexible work strategies, Cali has a keen understanding of how flexible work fuels high performing organizations. During our conversation, Cali spoke about some of the current challenges and bright spots with flexible work policies, the importance of training managers and leaders to work in flexible ways, and some of the latest research she and her team have uncovered in building high performing, flexible organizations.Links:Recent Research: https://flexstrategygroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-research-snapshot.pdf Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caliwilliamsyost/Website: https://flexstrategygroup.com/

Note: This is a replay of a popular episode of Season 2 From The Edge of Work with Melissa Daimler, Chief Learning Officer at Udemy, and Author of Reculturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success.An experienced executive in learning and people, Melissa has been a student and practitioner of culture and has seen and led cultural transformations at leading companies including Adobe and Twitter. But while designing a great culture is a good start, in a complex and ever-changing world, setting a static culture is no longer enough, in fact, companies can and should re-culture their organizations, as their people, customers, and business evolves.During this LinkedIn live, we spoke about the importance of company culture in today’s changing world of work, lessons from Melissa’s experiences at leading companies like Adobe and Twitter, and key aspects of both designing and re-designing company culture. Links:Melissa’s Book: https://www.melissadaimler.com/reculturing/

Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes from Season 3 of The Edge of Work.Adam Hickman is the Vice President of Learning and Org Development at Partners Federal Credit Union, a Walt Disney Company. In addition to this role, Adam is an author and professor and writes and speaks regularly on topics related to management and leadership.During our conversation, Adam dove into some of the changes in the workplace and the implications of those changes (ex: technology) for what companies need out of their people managers so that they can have engaged and productive employees. Adam also shared some of his team’s strategy and approach at his organization around manager effectiveness, the approaches they are taking in redesign the role of the manager and develop good managers, and his own  to recruit and empower effective managers, and some of his own thoughts on how you can create a better world of work through better managers.Links:Adam’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamghickman/Al's Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsaldea/https://www.hrdconnect.com/2023/04/25/how-to-evolve-and-equip-your-managers-to-buck-the-disengagement-trend/adam-hickman-on-the-shifting-role-of-the-manager/ 

Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes from S2 of The Edge of Work.Nick Holmes is the Head of Career Experience at Fishawack Health, a healthcare organization based in the United Kingdom. As the head of Career Experience, Nick’s role is to build an organization that not only attracts great employees, but develops them, retains them and provides them opportunities to grow so they can contribute to Fishawack Health. Upon taking the role, Nick had a bold mandate, which was to develop and implement a new strategy around career development and the transformation to enable it so Fishawack Health could compete for top talent in a very competitive labor market.During this conversation, Nick spoke about the “why” for going under this massive transformation. Nick also shared some of the feedback that employees provided on the new programs, technologies and pathways, how they were able to change the culture and behaviors around career development in “drumbeats, not lightning bolts.”Nick also spoke about how the various technologies and programs that were a part of the transformation engage and interact with employees, Nick’s own learnings to date from leading the transformation, as well as his advice to others who are thinking about developing and implementing a career development strategy for their organization.Links: Nick’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickholmeslandd/Profile on Fishawack Health: https://fuel50.com/2022/11/talent-experience-fishawack-health/